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NAME

       branch - handle a family of fields (rheolef-7.1)

SYNOPSIS

       branch [options] file[.branch[.gz]]

EXAMPLES

       Run an animation:

           branch file.branch

        It uses either gnuplot, for 1d geometries, or paraview, otherwise.

       Next, let us extract the 17-th indexed and save it in .field file format. Indexes started
       at 0:

           branch file.branch -extract 17 -branch > file-17.field

DESCRIPTION

       Read and visualize or output a branch of finite element fields from file.

INPUT FILE SPECIFICATION

       filename

           Specifies the name of the file containing the input field.

       -

           Read field on standard input instead on a file.

       -Idir \ -I dir

           Add dir to the Rheolef file search path. This option is useful e.g. when the mesh .geo
           and the .field files are in different directories. This mechanism initializes a search
           path given by the environment variable RHEOPATH. If the environment variable RHEOPATH
           is not set, the default value is the current directory.

       -name

           When the field comes from standard input, the file base name is not known and is set
           to 'output' by default. This option allows one to change this default. Useful when
           dealing with output formats (graphic, format conversion) that creates auxiliary files,
           based on this name.

INPUT FORMAT OPTIONS

       -if format
       -input-format format

           Load a mesh in the prescribed file format. Supported input file formats are: .branch
           and .vtk.

RENDER SPECIFICATION

       -gnuplot

           Run a 1d animation using gnuplot.

       -paraview

           Run 2d and 3d animations using paraview. Generate a collections of .vtk files and a
           main .py python one, then execute the python file.

RENDERING OPTIONS

       -skipvtk

           Do not regenerate the collection of .vtk files when using the paraview render. Only
           generate the main .py python file and execute it. Assume that all the .vtk files was
           already created with the -vtk option or with -paraview one combined with -noclean.

       -color
       -gray
       -black-and-white
       -bw

           Use (color/gray scale/black and white) rendering. Color rendering is the default.

       -[no]showlabel

           Show or hide title, color bar and various annotations. Default is to show labels.

       -label string

           Set the label to show for the represented value. This supersedes the default value.

       -[no]elevation

           For a two dimensional field, represent values as elevation in the third dimension. The
           default is no elevation.

       -[no]fill

           Isoline intervals are filled with color. This is the default.

       -[no]volume

           For 3D data, render values using a colored translucid volume. This option requires the
           paraview code.

       -scale float

           Applies a multiplicative factor to the field. This is useful e.g. in conjunction with
           the -elevation option. The default value is 1.

       -[no]stereo

           Rendering mode suitable for red-blue anaglyph 3D stereoscopic glasses. This option is
           only available with paraview.

       -[no]cut

           Cut by a specified plane. The cutting plane is specified by its origin point and
           normal vector. This option requires paraview.

       -origin float [float [float]]

           Set the origin of the cutting plane. Default is (0.5, 0.5, 0.5).

       -normal float [float [float]]

           Set the normal of the cutting plane. Default is (1, 0, 0).

       -isovalue [float]
       -iso [float]

           Draw 2d isoline or 3d isosurface. When the optional float is not provided, a median
           value is used. This option requires the paraview code.

       -noisovalue

           Do not draw isosurface. This is the default.

       -n-iso int

           For 2D visualizations, the isovalue table contains regularly spaced values from fmin
           to fmax, the bounds of the field.

         -n-iso-negative int

           The isovalue table is split into negatives and positives values. Assume there is
           n_iso=15 isolines: if 4 is requested by this option, then, there will be 4 negatives
           isolines, regularly spaced from fmin to 0 and 11=15-4 positive isolines, regularly
           spaced from 0 to fmax. This option is useful when plotting e.g. vorticity or stream
           functions, where the sign of the field is representative.

OUTPUT FILE SPECIFICATION

       -vtk

           Generate a collection of .vtk files for paraview.

       -branch

           Output on stdout in .branch format.

       -extract int
       -index int

           Extract the i-th record in the file. The output is a field or multi-field file format.
           Indexes started at 0.

       -toc

           Print the table of contents (toc) to standard output and exit. Each index value is
           followed by the associated value (e.g. the time or a physical parameter).

       -ndigit int

           Number of digits used to print floating point values when using the -branch option.
           Note that the default value depends upon the machine precision associated to the Float
           type, as defined by the configure script during the installation of the library (see
           configuration). When Float is double, then 16 digits are used by default. This default
           value can be changed by this option, e.g. for the portability of non-regression tests.

       -image-format string

           For image or video capture. The supported argument are .avi, .jpg, .png, .tif and
           .bmp.

       This option should be combined with the paraview render. The output file is basename.avi
       where basename is the name of the mesh, or can be set with the -name option. -resolution
       int int

           For the resolution of an image or a video capture. The argument is a couple of sizes,
           separated by a white space. This option can be used together with the -image-format
           for any of the bitmap image formats. This option requires the paraview render.

OTHERS OPTIONS

       -umin float
       -umax float

           Set the solution range for the gnuplot driver. By default this range is computed from
           the first field of the branch, and this could be problematic when this field is
           initialy zero.

       `-subdivide int

           When using a high order geometry, the number of points per edge used to draw a curved
           element. Default value is the mesh order.

       -topography filename[.field[.gz]]

           Performs a tridimensional elevation view based on the topographic data.

       -proj

           Performs a P1 projection on the fly. This option is useful when rendering P0 data
           while the paraview render requires P1 description.

       -lumped-proj

           Force P1 approximation for L2 projection and use a lumped mass matrix for it.

       -[no]verbose

           Print messages related to graphic files created and command system calls (this is the
           default).

       `-[no]clean

           Clear temporary graphic files (this is the default).

        -[no]execute

           Execute graphic command (this is the default). The -noexecute variant is useful in
           conjunction with the -verbose and -noclean options in order to modify some render
           options by hand.

EXAMPLE OF FILE FORMAT CONVERSION

       For conversion from the .vtk legacy ascii file format to the .branch one, simply writes:

           branch -if vtk -branch - < input.vtk > output.branch

THE BRANCH FILE FORMAT

       The .branch file format bases on the .field one (see field(1) ):

           example        | general format
           -------------------------------------------------
           #!branch       | #!branch
           branch         | branch
           1 1 11         | <version> <nfield=1> <nvalue=N>
           time u         | <key> <field name>
                          |
           #time 3.14     | #<key> <key value 1>
           #u             | #<field name>
           field          | <field 1>
           .....          | ....
                          |
           .....          | ....
           #time 6.28     | #<key> <key value N>
           #u             | #<field name>
           field          | <field N>
           .....          |  ....

        The key is here time, but could be any string without spaces, such as t or lambda. Labels
       appears all along the file to facilitate direct jumps and field and step skips.

       The previous example contained one field at each time step. The format supports several
       fields, such as (t,u(t),p(t)), where u could be a multi-component field (e.g. a vector):

           #!branch
           branch
           1 2 11
           time u p

           #time 3.14
           #u
           ...
           #p
           ...
           #time 6.28
           ...

IMPLEMENTATION

       This documentation has been generated from file main/bin/branch.cc

AUTHOR

       Pierre  Saramito  <Pierre.Saramito@imag.fr>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright   (C)  2000-2018  Pierre  Saramito  <Pierre.Saramito@imag.fr> GPLv3+: GNU GPL
       version 3 or later  <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  This  is  free  software:  you
       are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
       law.